ableplayer · joedolson · Sep 18, 2025 · Aug 11, 2025 · Aug 12, 2025 · Aug 12, 2025
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -360,10 +360,7 @@ Setting this to "off" is useful if all videos have plenty of audio space for des
 
 ### Sign language
 
-Sign language translation is supported in a separate video player, synchronized with the main player. Tips for filming a sign language interpreter are available from [Signing Books for the Deaf][]:
-
-* [Filming the Signer][]
-* [Editing the Signer][]
+Sign language translation is supported in a separate video player, synchronized with the main player. Some tips for filming a sign language interpreter are available from [Signing Books for the Deaf][].
 
 #### Loading from local source
 
@@ -573,7 +570,6 @@ If you don’t have access to your server’s .htaccess file, you should be able
 If your site is running on a Windows server, consult the documentation from Microsoft. For example:
 
 - [Configuring MIME Types in IIS 7][]
-- [How to add MIME Types with IIS7 Web.config][]
 
 ## Keyboard Shortcuts
 
@@ -610,41 +606,27 @@ One of *Able Player’s* accessibility features is that the player is highly cus
 - Highlight transcript as video plays
 - Keyboard-enable transcript
 
-## Acknowledgments
+## Acknowledgements
 
 - Able Player development is supported in part by the [AccessComputing][] project at the University of Washington, with financial support from the National Science Foundation (grants #CNS-0540615, CNS-0837508, and CNS-1042260).
 - Additional support has been provided by the [Committee on Institutional Cooperation][] (CIC).
 - Turtle and rabbit icons (available as optional alternatives for the speed buttons) are provided courtesy of [Icons8][].
 - Sample video tracks are provided courtesy of [The DO-IT Center][] at the University of Washington. Additional videos are available on the [DO-IT Video][] website, which uses Able Player.
 - Sample audio tracks feature songs by Terrill Thompson, Able Player's creator and original lead developer. Check out [Terrill's music site] for more listening, and to support his work.
 
-  [AccessComputing]: http://washington.edu/accesscomputing
-  [Committee on Institutional Cooperation]: https://www.cic.net/home
-  [Configuring MIME Types in IIS 7]: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/17bda1f4-8a0d-440f-986a-5aaa9d40b74c.aspx
-  [Editing the Signer]: http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/signingbooks/sbrc/grid/d71/guide13.htm
-  [develop]: https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer/tree/develop
-  [examples]: http://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer/demos/
-  [Filming the Signer]: http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/signingbooks/sbrc/grid/d71/guide12.htm
-  [Flavors, by Flow Theory]: http://www.terrillthompson.com/music/2012/01/flow-theory-flavors/
-  [DO-IT Video]: http://washington.edu/doit/video
-  [Google Developer Console]: https://console.developers.google.com/
-  [Google's Getting Started page]: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/javascript/start/start-js#Getkeysforyourapplication
-  [Grunt]: http://gruntjs.com/
-  [How to add MIME Types with IIS7 Web.config]: http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/03/25/how-to-add-mime-types-with-iis7-web-config.aspx
+  [AccessComputing]: https://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/
+  [Committee on Institutional Cooperation]: https://btaa.org/about/news-and-publications/news/2016/06/30/the-committee-on-institutional-cooperation-is-now-the-big-ten-academic-alliance
+  [Configuring MIME Types in IIS 7]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc753281(v=ws.10)
+  [examples]: https://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer/demos/
+  [DO-IT Video]: https://doit.uw.edu/videos/
   [Icons8]: https://icons8.com
-  [issues]: https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer/issues
-  [jQuery]: http://jquery.com/
-  [jquery.cookie]: https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie
+  [jQuery]: https://jquery.com/
   [js-cookie]: https://github.com/js-cookie/js-cookie
-  [JW Player]: http://www.jwplayer.com/
-  [Modernizr]: http://modernizr.com/
-  [npm]: https://www.npmjs.com/
-  [Signing Books for the Deaf]: http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/signingbooks/
+  [Signing Books for the Deaf]: https://pragmaprojects.eu/signingbooks/index.php/the-project/summary
   [Terrill's music site]: https://terrillthompson.com/music
-  [The DO-IT Center]: http://washington.edu/doit
+  [The DO-IT Center]: https://doit.uw.edu/
   [Video Demo #7]: demos/video7.html
   [WebVTT validator]: https://quuz.org/webvtt/
-  [WebAIM’s 2017 Screen Reader User Survey]: https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey7/#browsers
   [WebVTT]: https://w3c.github.io/webvtt/
   [Web Speech API]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API
   [YouTube's Terms of Service]: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/required-minimum-functionality#overlays-and-frames
diff --git a/build/ableplayer.dist.js b/build/ableplayer.dist.js
@@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ var AblePlayerInstances = [];
 				break;
 
 			case 'slower':
-				svg[0] = '0 0 20 20';
+				svg[0] = '0 0 11 20';
 				svg[1] = 'M0 7.321q0-0.29 0.212-0.502t0.502-0.212h10q0.29 0 0.502 0.212t0.212 0.502-0.212 0.502l-5 5q-0.212 0.212-0.502 0.212t-0.502-0.212l-5-5q-0.212-0.212-0.212-0.502z';
 				svg[2] = 'icon-slower';
 				svg[3] = this.slowerButtonImg;
@@ -3694,7 +3694,7 @@ var AblePlayerInstances = [];
 
 	AblePlayer.prototype.injectBigPlayButton = function () {
 
-		var thisObj, svgData, buttonIcon, svgPath;
+		var thisObj;
 
 		thisObj = this;
 
@@ -5012,7 +5012,7 @@ var postProcessing = {
     return vttContent.replace(
       /<c class="([\w\s]+)">/g,
       function (_, classNames) {
-        var classes = classNames.replace(/\./g, " ");
+        var classes = classNames.replace(/ /g, ".");
         return "<c." + classes + ">";
       }
     );
@@ -7539,6 +7539,13 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 					this.youTubeSignPlayer.playVideo();
 				}
 			}
+			if (options && typeof options.volume !== 'undefined') {
+				if ( this.signVideo ) {
+					this.signVideo.volume = 0;
+				} else {
+					this.youTubeSignPlayer.setVolume(0);
+				}
+			}
 		}
 	};
 
@@ -7722,17 +7729,6 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 			}
 		}
 
-		if (context === 'descriptions' || context == 'init'){
-			if (this.$descButton) {
-				this.toggleButtonState(
-					this.$descButton,
-					this.descOn,
-					this.tt.turnOffDescriptions,
-					this.tt.turnOnDescriptions,
-				);
-			}
-		}
-
 		if (context === 'captions' || context == 'init') {
 
 			if (this.$ccButton) {
@@ -7753,6 +7749,7 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 					this.captionsOn,
 					ariaLabelOff,
 					ariaLabelOn,
+					'buttonOff',
 					ariaPressed
 				);
 			}
@@ -7777,14 +7774,6 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 					if (!this.hideBigPlayButton) {
 						this.$bigPlayButton.show();
 						this.$bigPlayButton.attr('aria-hidden', 'false');
-
-					}
-					if (this.fullscreen) {
-						this.$bigPlayButton.width($(window).width());
-						this.$bigPlayButton.height($(window).height());
-					} else {
-						this.$bigPlayButton.width(this.$mediaContainer.width());
-						this.$bigPlayButton.height(this.$mediaContainer.height());
 					}
 				} else {
 					this.$bigPlayButton.hide();
@@ -7908,7 +7897,6 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 	};
 
 	AblePlayer.prototype.handlePlay = function(e) {
-
 		if (this.paused) {
 			this.okToPlay = true;
 			this.playMedia();
@@ -8206,7 +8194,6 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 	};
 
 	AblePlayer.prototype.handleTranscriptToggle = function () {
-
 		var thisObj = this;
 		var visible = this.$transcriptDiv.is(':visible');
 		if ( visible ) {
@@ -8455,22 +8442,22 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 
 	AblePlayer.prototype.toggleButtonState = function($button, isOn, onLabel, offLabel, offClass = 'buttonOff', ariaPressed = false, ariaExpanded = false) {
 		if (isOn) {
-			$button.removeClass(offClass).attr('aria-label', onLabel);
-			$button.find('span.able-clipped').text(onLabel);
+			$button.addClass(offClass).attr('aria-label', offLabel);
+			$button.find('span.able-clipped').text(offLabel);
 			if ( ariaPressed ) {
-				$button.attr('aria-pressed', 'true');
+				$button.attr('aria-pressed', 'false');
 			}
 			if ( ariaExpanded ) {
-				$button.attr( 'aria-expanded', 'true' );
+				$button.attr( 'aria-expanded', 'false' );
 			}
 		} else {
-			$button.addClass(offClass).attr('aria-label', offLabel);
-			$button.find('span.able-clipped').text(offLabel);
+			$button.removeClass(offClass).attr('aria-label', onLabel);
+			$button.find('span.able-clipped').text(onLabel);
 			if ( ariaPressed ) {
-				$button.attr('aria-pressed', 'false');
+				$button.attr('aria-pressed', 'true');
 			}
 			if ( ariaExpanded ) {
-				$button.attr( 'aria-expanded', 'false' );
+				$button.attr( 'aria-expanded', 'true' );
 			}
 		}
 	};
@@ -10612,9 +10599,7 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 	};
 
 	AblePlayer.prototype.onClickPlayerButton = function (el) {
-
 		var whichButton, prefsPopup;
-
 		whichButton = this.getButtonNameFromClass($(el).attr('class'));
 		switch ( whichButton ) {
 			case 'play':
@@ -10845,17 +10830,13 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 			})
 			.on('loadedmetadata',function() {
 				thisObj.duration = thisObj.media.duration;
-				var x = 50.5;
-				var y = 51.9;
-				var diff = Math.abs(Math.round(x)-Math.round(y));
 			})
 			.on('canplay',function() {
 			})
 			.on('canplaythrough',function() {
-					thisObj.onMediaNewSourceLoad();
+				thisObj.onMediaNewSourceLoad();
 			})
 			.on('play',function() {
-				 thisObj.refreshControls('playpause');
 			})
 			.on('playing',function() {
 				thisObj.playing = true;
@@ -10977,7 +10958,6 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 	};
 
 	AblePlayer.prototype.addEventListeners = function () {
-
 		var thisObj = this;
 
 		$(window).on('resize',function () {
@@ -11018,7 +10998,7 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 			if (e.button !== 0) { 
 				return false;
 			}
-			if ($('.able-popup:visible').length || $('.able-volume-popup:visible')) {
+			if ($('.able-popup:visible').length || $('.able-volume-slider:visible').length ) {
 				thisObj.closePopups();
 			}
 			if (e.target.tagName === 'VIDEO') {
@@ -11771,23 +11751,22 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 
 (function ($) {
 	AblePlayer.prototype.initSignLanguage = function() {
-
-		var hasLocalSrc = ( this.$media.data('sign-src') !== undefined && this.$media.data('sign-src') !== "" );
+		this.hasSignLanguage = false;
+		var hasLocalSrc = ( this.$sources.first().attr('data-sign-src') !== undefined && this.$sources.first().attr('data-sign-src') !== "" );
 		var hasRemoteSrc = ( this.$media.data('youtube-sign-src') !== undefined && this.$media.data('youtube-sign-src') !== "" );
-		if ( ! this.isIOS() && ( hasLocalSrc || hasRemoteSrc ) ) {
-			this.hasSignLanguage = true;
+		var hasRemoteSource = ( this.$sources.first().attr('data-youtube-sign-src') !== undefined && this.$sources.first().attr('data-youtube-sign-src') !== '' );
+		if ( ! this.isIOS() && ( hasLocalSrc || hasRemoteSrc || hasRemoteSource ) && ( this.player === 'html5' || this.player === 'youtube' ) ) {
+			let ytSignSrc = this.youTubeSignId ?? DOMPurify.sanitize( this.$sources.first().attr('data-youtube-sign-src') );
+			let signSrc = DOMPurify.sanitize( this.$sources.first().attr('data-sign-src') );
+			let signVideo = DOMPurify.sanitize( this.$media.data('youtube-sign-src') );
+			this.signFile = (hasLocalSrc ) ? signSrc : false;
 			if ( hasRemoteSrc ) {
-				this.signYoutubeId = this.youTubeSignId;
+				this.signYoutubeId = signVideo;
+			} else if ( hasRemoteSource ) {
+				this.signYoutubeId = ytSignSrc;
 			}
-			this.injectSignPlayerCode();
-			return;
-		}
-		if (this.player === 'html5') {
-			this.signYoutubeId = this.youTubeSignId ?? DOMPurify.sanitize( this.$sources.first().attr('data-youtube-sign-src') );
-			this.signFile = DOMPurify.sanitize( this.$sources.first().attr('data-sign-src') );
-			if (this.signFile || this.signYoutubeId) {
+			if ( this.signFile || this.signYoutubeId ) {
 				if (this.isIOS()) {
-					this.hasSignLanguage = false;
 					if (this.debug) {
 
 											}
@@ -11798,11 +11777,7 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 					this.hasSignLanguage = true;
 					this.injectSignPlayerCode();
 				}
-			} else {
-				this.hasSignLanguage = false;
 			}
-		} else {
-			this.hasSignLanguage = false;
 		}
 	};
 
@@ -13019,8 +12994,16 @@ if (typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports) {
 		})
 		.fail(function() {
 
-						thisObj.provideFallback();
-			deferred.fail();
+						translationFile = thisObj.rootPath + 'translations/' + thisObj.lang + '.js';
+			$.getJSON(translationFile, function(data) {
+				thisObj.tt = data;
+				deferred.resolve();
+			})
+			.fail( function() {
+
+								thisObj.provideFallback();
+				deferred.fail();
+			});
 		})
 		return deferred.promise();
 	};